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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 05, 1962
Page
8
The county budget totals 2,300,972 with seven Halton municipalities sharing the operating costs. A general rate of 4.6 mills applies to each equalized 1961 assessment, plus a road rate of 1.4 mills, and special levies funded debentures for North Halton high schools. The final column lists each municipality’s total contribution.
Knox Presbyterian will host annual Holy Week services from April 15 to 19. Speakers include Rev. Donald West Rev. J Rudd Rev. Dwight Engel Rev A McKenzie and Rev J Nurma with their congregations. Choirs from the churches will sing on different evenings.
County residents face a 9.86 per capita cost to fund a 2,300,000 Halton budget with 1,335,914 funded by 116,000 people. Five North Halton municipalities add 91 cents per person for debt on Acton Georgetown Milton High Schools. Surpluses in general and roads accounts reduce burden by 1.86 per capita. A poem by Marie D Henry follows.
Halton County Council approved a 1962 budget totaling 2,300,927 with local municipalities to raise 1,450,950. The plan bases the general rate at 4.6 mills and road rate at 14 mills, with surpluses and other revenues adding to the 1962 funding. The five North Halton towns continue debt payments on high school construction, totaling 115,035.
County revenue and expenditure figures for 1962 show surpluses in both general and roads budgets after transfers from large prior-year surpluses. Auditor W H Matthews notes registry revenue exceeded budget and many expenditures ran under budget, with detailed allocations across general government protection public welfare debt charges and other expenditures including hospital grants, welfare and school aid, and a capital program for a new county building and Manor site purchases.
Halton's current assessment stands at 222,652,518 dollars, seven times higher than 16 years ago, says Assessor J. Ford Rogers. He noted in 1946 it was 32,000,000 dollars and the value continues to climb. Halton, Ontario’s third smallest county by area, holds the province's highest assessment. York Township would have topped Halton if it had retained its original boundaries. Halton also has the second highest population today.
Miss Margaret Maxted and clerk administrator Garfield Brown earned two extra paid days off after county councillors’ Friday meeting. Oakville Deputy Reeve Herb Merry complimented officials on the two hours of seam at the end of the session, recognizing their extensive budget preparation effort.
A terse philosophical remark argues that some scientists claim full understanding of science requires immersion beyond mere reading, using whales as an analogy and invoking the figure Jonah to imply limits of knowledge without direct experience.
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